DCD Magazine #62 - The coming wave
Will compute at sea sink or swim?
News - UK & Ireland, Georgia Butler, DatacenterDynamics
The latest news from the AI, data center, telco, chip, and cloud sector
DCD Magazine #62 out now
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Green Mountain secures neocloud customer at data center in London, UK
Covers 14MW at the LON-East campus
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AWS launches new availability zone for UK cloud region
Also adds AWS Local Zone in Las Vegas, Nevada
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Microsoft details plans for data center in Langley, UK
Langley Business Centre site could be redeveloped into a data center
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UK Treasury designates big four US hyperscalers as "Critical Third Parties"
Will bring Google, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft, and Oracle under direct regulatory oversight
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AI lab Ineffable Intelligence taps Google Cloud for compute
Will use large cluster of A5X instances
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Civo and Era4 launch Sovereign AI cloud offering in the UK
Housed in Era4 data centers, using Civo cloud platform
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UK's National Crime Agency told "IT infrastructure isn't fit for purpose"
NCA told to overhaul its IT estate by HM Inspectorate
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Nebius signs 22MW capacity agreement with Kao Data in the UK
Has also said it will invest £1.7bn in three Nvidia infrastructure deployments in the country
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UK's National Physical Laboratory seeks bids for new data center
NPL puts out pipeline notice for £9.6m project
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Police seize £1.2m worth of equipment during raid of data center in Farnborough, UK
Facility was being used for illegal streaming
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LSEG renews agreement with Broadcom to continue using VMware
While the UK's NHS North East London board jumps ship
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Future Publishing selects Telehouse as colocation partner
Specialist media platform will use Telehouse South facility
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Fujitsu finally set to exit UK Post Office IT contract
Post Office signs £322.8m deal with Accenture to take over
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UK Home Office cancels Police National Database cloud migration
80 percent of the code was found to be unusable in the cloud
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Argyll and SambaNova launch sovereign AI cloud in the UK
Plans for partnership first announced in October 2025
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UK's Department for Work and Pensions plots data center exit
Awards Redesmere Ltd decommissioning and migration contract
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UK's BlackBox Hosting selects Everpure for private cloud offering
Upgrades to Everpure's all-flash storage technology
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UK's Competition Appeal Tribunal rules $2.8bn lawsuit against Microsoft can go to trial
Case originally filed in 2024
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Microsoft CEO says Fairwater data center site is "going live ahead of schedule"
The campus will form a cluster of hundreds of thousands of GB200 GPUs
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UK's Derbyshire County Council to migrate data to Microsoft Azure cloud
Previously stored at "aging" HQ
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Google takes up capacity at Nscale data center in West London, UK - report
Separate to the recently dropped Nscale site by OpenAI
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Microsoft Azure's UK South region experiences capacity issues - report
Customers claim they are being turned away from increasing compute
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Spectra Logic and Geyser Data launch tape archive site in London, UK
Will offer "tape-as-a-service" from the location
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UK's Maritime and Coastguard Agency seeks new data center
Puts out tender for data center to handle long-range identification and tracking
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UK's competition watchdog launches SMS investigation into Microsoft, AWS avoids further scrutiny
Latest update shared on the Cloud Services Market Investigation
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London Stock Exchange opts for Dell Technologies for on-prem infrastructure and private cloud platform
LSEG further embraces multicloud
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AWS wins UK's HMRC data center services contract after Fujitsu exit
AWS will help the department to exit three Fujitsu data centers in the UK
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HostDime suffers downtime at UK data center due to contractual dispute with colocation provider
Brings down HostDime customer workloads as well